I know there was a time she was missing when Louis died and when Shannon disappeared in the seventh mystery.
She broke her hand in one little sister books and missed a meeting.
Did she miss the meeting when Watson had his heart attack?
I included Merida’s original love interest, chief tui, and chief Benja for those movies. Yes I included both John’s.
The beast has to be in his human form.
Like Stacey is gonna be working at her mom’s store, I don’t think she’s gonna have much time for babysitting.
Abby and Logan and Jessi are all focusing on their own individual sports.
As evidence by the California Diaries Dawn stopped sitting altogether.
I feel like Mary Anne might still be sitting, but she would’ve scaled back. I think the end of the friends forever series set up an arc for her to find herself who she is outside of a relationship and the club so I think she would’ve given it up at some point.
Shannon was almost too busy to even be in the club. I think that’ll be one less responsibility on her plate.
Mallory’s away on boarding school, but I feel like she’s babysitting in the summer. And she probably won’t be watching her own brothers and sisters. Byron stepped in as a replacement haha.
Kristy is definitely babysitting. She can strike it rich just sitting for the kids on Watson’s side of town. Because once Charlie moves away for college, Sam’s not gonna be so easy to convince to drive her places so she’d have to stick local anyway.
Claudia is definitely babysitting. I don’t think she’d ever give up sitting for the Newtons. She loved Jamie and Lucy so much.
And before anyone says Mallory, no. She’s at boarding school and I think she’s on her way to becoming well liked. So someone else.
So in the California Diaries series, Dawns friend Jill gets treated as “immature” and drifted away from her friends as the others dealt with heavier issues.
So, which babysitter do you think would have been treated the same way? Not necessarily the exact same way, but just would’ve been seen as a little more immature compared to the others. Here’s mine!
No:
I think they set up Mary Anne to have a bit of a heavier arc perfectly. I don’t think it would be her.
Stacey and Claudia has always been seen as a little more mature and sophisticated compared to the others so it’s not them. We don’t see enough of her, but I feel like Shannon is also seen as a little more mature than the others.
Dawn as seen in the California diaries series. Mallory also has a really good set up to have a heavier arc especially being away in school.
Maybe:
Jessi. We’ve seen the dark side of dancing (with the eating disorder plot). I feel like they could take it a little farther. Dance Academy is a really good show that I think they could taken her in direction.
Abby and Logan. I feel like it could work but at the same time maybe not what do you think?
Yes:
I’m actually inclined to say that it’s Kristy. She had a really hard time letting go of the club and we never really gotten an indication that the Krushers ever ended so she still like playing sports with the kids in the end. Not saying that means anything but i’m using the logic that the California diaries set up here.
I figured I’d count those crushes because it might get them up as high as Claudia and Stacey lol. I’m curious to know! They had to say they like them or gone on a date.
Kristy originally went out with Alan. Then she had her crush on Bart. She had a vacation boyfriend in European vacation (Michel). She also mentioned liking one of the guys Claudia set up in book 70 - Brian hall. She’s up to 4.
Mary Anne never had anyone besides Logan. And then we can’t forget the sea city boyfriend Alex. She only ever had 2 then.
In the friends forever series, a boy named Dave Griffin asked her out after she dumped Logan, but I don’t think she ever liked him back. She went on a date with the boy from Iowa her grandma set her up on. But she never developed a crush on him.
Mallory only ever had Ben. I don’t think she mentioned ever going to a dance with anyone else. So she’s at 1.
Jessi always had Quint. She liked the one guy in the shadow Lake super special. She went on a date with the seventh grader to a couple of dances - but I don’t think she ever had a crush on him. So thats 2.
We’ve had girls mentioned they liked Logan but other than Mary Anne he’s only ever went out with Dorianne and Cokie. He’s at 3.
Abby never had a crush or dated anyone. We also don’t hear anything about Shannon‘s love life.
Dawn has a crush on Travis in book 37. She thinks Dave Griffin is cute in book 51 (did that develop as a crush?).
Parker Harris is her first boyfriend whom she meets in the first super special. Dawn writes to Lewis Bruno at Mary Anne's suggestion and plans to see him when he visits Stoneybrook. I think she thinks a lot about a guy named Price in snowbound? She’s up to 5ish.
Is there anyone I missed?
Urban dictionary says that the wild child is - teenager, male or female, usually in the range of 13-16 years old, who likes to go wild and have a good time. Their activities are not necessarily bad, but definately against the rules. Might sneak out of the house in the dead of the night.
Personally, I’m gonna say Ariel. Before we even see Eric, we know she’s collecting human objects despite being explicitly forbidden. And approaches humans despite her father’s warnings. Obviously she’s not doing anything dangerous, but she is the fun one.
The mom friend is the one in the group that is super responsible and almost over-protective of them. She’s the type that will drive you home at 2 AM and make sure you’re eating your vegetables and the one you called when you get arrested or whatever.
Personally, I’m a big fan of Snow White. She’s definitely the one who’s standing her ground and being “like eat your vegetables” and “don’t forget to wash your hands.”
If not Snow White then I say Tiana.
Could be from any of the series! Here’s a few of my favorites.
It’s been a year since I last ran this poll, time to see what all the new people think haha.
As always, I’m a big fan of the short hair. I like to think she had the Rachel. It’s never described in the book, but I like to think her short hair grew out to eventually be a bob length and that would look adorable.
The Disney princess lineup leans more pastel when they did the redesigns. However, the movie definitely leads more toward a darker color scheme for her princess dress.
Which do you prefer?
Personally, my favorite is the darker colors.
Like I love early Kristy up to about book 70ish, I don’t like the way she was written and flanderized later. Same with Dawn and most of the other girls.
But I do love how confident and bubbly Charlotte Johanssen became later in the series compared to the beginning. She even was convinced to play basketball for a book despite hating sports. Like that was character development done right.
I also really liked how they handled Grace Blume. She became friendly with the sitters. She attended a meeting in one mystery book before reverting back to bully.
Could be with the parents or could be with any of the girls - just have fun.
I really wish they explored Richard and Elizabeth. Even if they didn’t get together romantically, I would’ve loved to see what their friendship was like.
Mary Anne and Pete Black at least one date they would’ve been so cute together. Same with Cary and Kristy.
In other news, Dad and the older boy is also getting a reprint.
Both are set to come out in 2027.
We’ve talked about the main seven girls a lot on the sub but characters like Alan Gray, Pete black Emily Bernstein - those characters.
I mean, Emily went from being editor of the paper to a freshman staff writer. That probably didn’t make her very happy.
Do you have any other headcanons?
So I am a fan fic writer and I do have a couple of original characters I have the girls eventually get married to, a couple of original (ish) clients, etc.
I do not write them very often mainly because I do focus on the girls friendships and families. I’m also a little weary because I don’t know how people feel about original characters (hence the post lol). I’m not the biggest fan of having them end up with their high school/middle school boyfriends and for dramas sake (sometimes) I will write them having friends outside of the club.
So my question is when do you like seeing the original characters? When do they become too overwhelming? Are there not enough in fics these days? Is there too many?
I want to hear your thoughts!
I thought this would be a fun idea. I got to thinking that in Brave, whoever married Merida would probably have to move to clan DunBroch so she can be queen. So in a modern world, her husband would be taking her last name.
And then I got to thinking about the other princesses. Here’s my list;
Change their name upon marriage: Cinderella, and Rapunzel.
Keep their name: Snow White, Belle, Mulan, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Raya.
Combine their names: Aurora, Ariel, and Moana.
Husband changes their last name to hers; Florian (I have this headcanon that he’s a second or third son so he said to inherit nothing), Aladdin (he would do it for Jasmine), and whoever marries Merida (he would do it for her).
What do you think?
I’ve done it once on my ten year (surprise for me when I saw that lol) anniversary. Haven’t looked lately.
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